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Meet the people preserving queer stories despite these recent efforts to erase LGBTQ+ history.

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Offering apologies is the least the U.S. government can do to help Indigenous communities heal from Indian boarding schools.

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MR. MCMASTER gives notice of the school to which he belongs when he entitles his history of the United States A History of the People of the United States. 1 The late Mr. J. R. Green was not precisely ...

A People’s History of Sports in the United States By Dave Zirin The New Press; 268 pp. The Gist: In A People’s History of Sports in the United States Zirin sets out to deflate the misconception that ...

So Trump—who didn’t spend a minute behind bars—about to swindle about 50 percent more than the total amount of money paid to ...

President Trump has a history of insulting people from African countries, but the outburst was shocking in its unapologetic ...

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said young Americans lack historical context about Israel after consuming ...